Enbridge Piñatas: A New Headache for Tar Sands Spinners

The folks in Enbridge’s Marketing Department have an unenviable job these days. The Canadian pipeline company that stands as the spear point of a concerted tar sands industry effort to foist more and more of their dangerous gunk through the US is having an extremely rough time : They were rightfully brutalized by the reports summarizing investigations of their tar sands disaster in Michigan's Kalamazoo River , who described Enbridge’s performance as worthy of the “Keystone Kops” and found that the company tolerated a “culture of deviance” when it came to safety. They are putting on a good face but looking at an ugly fight over their Northern Gateway tar sands export pipeline project that is opposed by a majority of British Columbians (the province most impacted by the project) who seem to have taken great umbrage at the company’s misleading media efforts . They are putting...